A. L'Astorina, I. Tomasoni, Researchers go to school, sharing content and procedures of scientific research

In this paper we present a case study of communication and educational proposal developed by CNR in order to promote the collaboration between Education and Research,that are the most important institutions in the production and the revision of the scientific and environmental knowledge. The proposal brings an ongoing CNR project (its steps, subjects, tools, activities) in classrooms, making use of interactive Earth Science workshops conducted directly by the researchers. The ongoing CNR project shared with students is focused on Innovative Methodologies of Earth Observation supporting the Agricultural sector in Lombardy. The proposal involves for 2 years 10 teachers, 160 high school students and researchers from 3 CNR institutions through participative and personalized workshops during which every School, according to its field of study, deepens one of the thematic areas of the project. Students are co-players of the research project and follow side by side the scientists in their procedures: they can actively participate, giving personal contributions and feedbacks. Furthermore they can freely express their expectations, acquire information, test new approaches and research tools. Some tasks that the students implement concern: the support to the project's communication activities (e.g. production of news, videos and of a specific project's glossary), the organization of scientific events/workshops dedicated to the presentation of the project's developments or first results and, of particular importance, the test of the project's Smart App that the researchers developed during their activities. The proposal makes also use of qualitative tools for evaluating the involvement of students, teachers and researchers and analysing the communication model implied in the relation among them. The goal of the initiative is twofold: introducing students to a concrete vision of the scientific process and inviting scientists to reflect on scientific participative models and their implementation. Keywords: scientific innovation, education, communication, public engagement, participation, exchange.